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Aug 24, 2016

Partnership between Bristol Meyers Squibb and AbbVie aims to evaluate the Combination of Rova-T plus Opdivo and Opdivo plus Yervoy Regimen Bristol Meyers Squibb and AbbVie have undergone an oncology clinical collaboration to develop a treatment option for patients with relapsed extensive-stage small cell lung cancer...

Aug 23, 2016

CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats), a gene-editing technology, has set a record by reaching clinics from the research laboratory in a very short time, as NIH’s Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee has approved the first clinical trial of the technology in the U.S. for coming June. The t...

Aug 22, 2016

Voltage-gated sodium channels are membrane proteins, a polypeptide chain of more than 1800 amino acids that conduct sodium ions at high rates. They are embedded in the plasma membrane and are actively present in the nerve and muscle cells used in the rapid electrical signaling. Nav channels are therapeutic targets f...

Aug 19, 2016

Zymeworks licenses new drug discovery platform from Innovative Targeting Solutions Zymeworks, a biotech company working on bispecific antibodies, has signed a licensing deal with Innovative Targeting Solutions (ITS) for HuTARG, which works as a protein engineering platform, and is the first fully mammalian tech that...

Aug 18, 2016

Branded product portfolio of Shionogi acquired by Lupin Pharma giant Lupin entered into a strategic agreement when its Japanese subsidiary Kyowa Pharmaceutical Industry Co. purchased the product portfolio of Japan’s Shionogi & Co., Ltd. The agreement results in acquisition of 21 products long-listed, and the dea...

Aug 17, 2016

Some collaborations change the face of treatment scenario, and this collaboration is one example of that. An immunologist collaborated with an oncologist to help fight the immunologist’s stepmother fight cancer, and turned the face of transformative therapy. The discovery is of a new class of drugs that help in bypa...

Aug 16, 2016

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Aug 11, 2016

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a rare genetic and neuromuscular condition which affects mainly children. It has several distinct types such as type 1 (Werdnig-Hoffmann disease), type 2 (Dubowitz disease), type 3 (Kugelberg-Welander disease) and type 4 (Adult onset). SMN1 (Survival Motor Neuron 1) is the primary ge...

Aug 04, 2016

NZ’s PHARMAC to fund six new treatments New Zealand’s Pharmac received $124 million as part of funding boost by the NZ Government in 2016 Budget. The funding would be used for the treatment of six new treatments. Opdivo (nivolumab) for advanced melanoma, rituximab for nephrotic syndrome in children, and Har...

Aug 03, 2016

Cancer has gripped the world in its clutches, and the grip hasn’t loosened for the past 3 decades. Research into cancer prognosis and treatment has many hurdles, and these hurdles keep on increasing with increasing insight to the disease itself. In terms of glioblastoma as well, the researchers have not had much suc...